Cars Movie Cookies

I made these for my two-year-old niece who loves the Cars Movies. Her favorite characters are Lightning McQueen and Mader, of course, but she also likes Flo so I added this one to the group.

This was the first time I had encountered Butter Bleed with my royal icing. The outside edges of the white royal icing in the background turned a light yellow. It looked a bit like a yellow ring.

I'm not completely sure what contributed to this. I had flooded these cookies a few days before and let them sit before I added the cars. I also think the cookie dough may have had a bit more butter as proportionate to flour than it usually does. I also used my oven trick to prevent craters as I described here. I think putting the white dried royal icing base into the oven (even at a very low temperature) was the main problem. I think it heated up the cookie just enough to cause the butter in the cookie to seep into the royal icing. In the future, I will only use this trick to quickly set icing that is still wet. I think a fan or dehydrator might have served me better with this project.

Princess Dresses

Elsa from Frozen, Rupunzel from Tangled, Tinker Bell, Belle from Beauty and the Beast, Snow White, Mulan, Ariel from The Little Mermaid, and Cinderella.

I used this dress cookie cutter from Copper Gifts. It's easy to make modifications to the dress shape with this particular cutter. Before I baked the dough, I trimmed off the rounded sides for Elsa and Mulan. I did the same for Tinker Bell, but I also trimmed a little off the bottom to give her dress the shape that I wanted.

Super Mario Cookies

I made these for my second youngest daughter's 4th birthday. She loves Super Mario and especially Princess Peach. It was very important to her that I made Princess Peach.

Princess Peach, of course, does not have a readily available cookie cutter as far as I could tell. I drew and cut out my own template for her and used a paring knife to cut her shape from the dough. I found the cookie cutters for Mario and Luigi here at www.cheapcookiecutters.com. I did not have a cookie cutter for the mushrooms either, but I used a large circle cutter. Once these were cut, I trimmed and shaped the bottom of the circles to make area of the stems/faces.

I outlined the characters with the help of my projector. I filled in the spaces with the appropriate colored royal icing, waited for it to dry, and then added the details with royal icing and my food dye markers.

Rio Parrot Cookies

Team Umizoomi Cookies

My projector came in handy when making these cookies. I cut out my own rectangular shapes from the cookie dough because I did not have a rectangular cookie cutter that was quite wide enough for bot. I used a flip flop cookie cutter for the other two.

I flooded the cookies with white royal icing and let them dry completely (overnight). The I outlined the character shapes in black with a PME tip # 1.5 using the projector images as a guide. Next, I flooded the sections with the appropriate colors. I added some remaining details in black. The only details I left until the next morning were the mouths and eyes. I waiting until the characters were completely dry to draw these with a black food dye marker. I used the FooDoodler brand of markers because I appreciate their fine tip for adding these smaller details. For the last step, I added a small spot of white royal icing onto the eyes.

The thin areas that I filled with colored icing became a cratering nightmare. These formed while the icing dried. I've made cookies similar to these (the Dr. Seuss cookies) so I had expected this. I pulled my scribe needle through the narrower sections in an attempt to prevent the craters from forming, but it wasn't 100% effective. I filled in most of the craters with icing after they formed with the same colored icing. It wasn't a perfect solution but it helped improve their appearance.

Minecraft Cookies

Steve, Creeper, TNT, and Pig.

The Minecraft characters are made up of pixelated blocks so I used my projector and projected a grid onto the cookies as a guideline.  For Pig and Creeper, I used an 8x8 grid. For Steve, I used a 10x10 grid. And for TNT, I used a 16x16 grid.

Vintage Winnie the Pooh Cookies

My friend is having her first baby and although I wasn't able to make it to her shower, I offered to make her some cookies for it. She told me that her baby shower's theme was loosely based on a vintage Winnie the Pooh look, so I made the cookies to go along with this.

For these cookies pictured, I used the onesie cookie cutter from the Wilton Baby Theme Set. Winnie Pooh was the Dancing Bear from www.cheapcookiecutters.com and I also found the Honey Pot and Mini Bee cookie cutters at this site as well.

For the rattle, I was inspired by the style Oh Sugar Events' baby rattle. I followed her design but used different colors.

This was one cookie set where having a projector came in handy. I used it to project the polkadots onto the onesie and rattle to get a more precise pattern. I also used it to project my sketches of the honey pot, bees, and Pooh bear onto the cookies. I drew the black outlines on Pooh, Piglet, and the honey pot with a food dye marker once the icing was completely dry.

Frozen Olaf and Dress Cookies

Anna and Elsa's dress, Olaf, and snowflakes.

Aladdin Genie Cookies

For these cookies, I used the ghost cookie cutter that is included in the Wilton 101-Piece Cookie Cutter set. I started with a sketch. I traced the outside of the ghost cookie cutter and then sketched the figure of the genie inside the cookie cutter outline. I then used an Artograph projector to illuminate my sketch onto the cookies. This worked fairly well, but, even with my sketch, I had to adjust the position of the genie's arms and tail on the cookies every so often.

I began by outlining the face and body of the genie in blue and then added the red sash, gold cuffs, eyes (black outline filled in with white), and mouth. Then I flooded the genie's hands, chest, and tail in blue. All that was left was to add a few remaining details - mainly the line on the genie's chest, beard, and hair - and then let the cookies dry overnight. I drew the pupil of his eye, the black line across his mouth, and his nose with a black food dye marker.

Elmo Birthday Cookies

I made these cookies for my own little Elmo fan who turns two years old tomorrow.

Lego Movie Cookies

I had a Lego minifigure cookie cutter, but I wanted to make Emmet from the Lego movie and my cutter didn't have any hair. (It had the look of a hairless lego head.) When I was cutting out the cookies from the dough, I added the hair by cutting out additional pieces of dough and attaching them to the head. It made for some additional work, but this did what I needed. I piped the grey suspenders on top of the orange icing while it was still wet to make it look like they were painted on. I mostly piped on all the details with royal icing but I used a food dye marker for the details around his blue shirt and to draw on his face.

Hello Kitty Cookies

Dr. Seuss Cookies

Dr. Seuss themed cookies: Cat in the Hat hats, Green eggs for Green Eggs and Ham, and blue and red fish for One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.

I've included some pictures of the cookies while they were in progress. For the hat cookies, I used a Crooked Hat Cookie Cutter. I outlined these cookies first with royal icing in a stiff, piping consistency. I used a Wilton #3 tip for the outline since a slightly wider line worked better for these particular cookies. Next I filled in the spaces with white and red 20-second icing, and, after they dried, I drew the little scribbly details with my black food dye marker.

I had to mix two batches of white icing since I hadn't made enough initially, and I had some cratering issues with the second batch. I'm fairly certain that it was because the second batch was slightly thinner and had more water than my original mixture. I've determined that for thin, enclosed spaces (like the spaces at the bottom of the hats), thicker icing holds up better than icing that is more watered down.



For the fish, I outlined them first with a Wilton #2 tip in black icing and then filled them in with red and blue flood icing. Once the red and blue icing was dry, I piped on the eyes and mouth with my remaining black icing and drew on the addition details with my black food dye marker.

For the eggs, I piped white, 20-second icing onto a round cookie. I gave it the asymmetrical look of a fried egg and filled it in immediately after it was outlined. One the white icing was dry, I added the green egg yolks with 20-second icing, and piped on a few black lines as added detail.

Lego Ninjago Cookies

I made these cookies for a friend's son's 7th birthday party. I followed Sugarbelle's tutorial fairly closely. I used the Wilton Comfort-Grip Egg cookie cutter and trimmed off a couple of pieces from the bottom to give them this shape. Instead of piping on frosting for the eyes, I cut out my own stencil and airbrushed them on with black food dye.

When my older daughters saw me making these cookies, they got very excited. They immediately insisted that I make "the Gold Ninja." I had no idea what this was, but it wasn't hard to figure it out. It's exactly what it sounds like. A gold ninja. So I decided to give making one a try. I made on Ninjago character that looked just like the others except that it's base color was a yellowish brown. Then I airbrushed some gold sheen food dye onto the cookie. This was my first attempt at using my airbrush to evenly cover a larger surface. I wished I had made more brown Ninjago cookies to use for practice. I had only made two so I didn't have much room for experimenting, but I think it turned out well enough.

I sent one gold ninja along with all the others for the birthday boy.